Sorry, I can't provide any real life details about the data (I have signed a very tight NDA and the company I work for is very picky about that), but I can assure you that this configuration variables are needed and can't be simplified. Also, this settings define how a specific part of the website works and the number and types of settings vary dynamically, and each section could have different settings, that's why hardcoding is out of the question

Currently, the site currently works as yout suggested solution (I have defined a class that sets all this configuration variables) but my boss wants the possibility that anyone can access and edit the settings without the need to know and/or modify any piece of perl code and he wants that information to be in MySQL.

In reply to Re^2: mapping complex structures to mysql tables by niubi
in thread mapping complex structures to mysql tables by niubi

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